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Professor of Zoology
Phone: (405)325-5514
RM/Lab:SH201A
Fax: (405)325-6202
Dr. Fincke's web page
Current Research Interests and Subject Areas Available for Graduate Research
I am a behavioral ecologist working broadly on the evolution of reproductive behavior, including sexual selection, sexual conflict, and the interaction of selection at different life history stages. One focus of my research is the community of organisms that breed in water-filled tree holes and other plant containers in Neotropical forests. These discrete microhabitats harbor a relatively simple guild of top predators (i.e. odonates, a frog, and a mosquito). Using tree holes as an experimental system, I investigate the relative importance of biotic and abiotic factors on reproductive behavior, population dynamics, and community structure. Using tree-hole odonates, I study how selective pressures at the larval stage affect sexually-selected adult traits. With collaborators, we use molecular markers to measure fitness of adults under natural conditions and the genetic structure of odonate populations in fragmented forests of the Neotropics.
A second area of research involves sexual signaling, insect learning, and visual polymorphisms that may play a role in speciation. Finally, a third area of research is on the effects of invasive zebra mussels on the fitness and behavior of odonates.
My graduate students work broadly in the areas of ecology and behavior, in both temperate and tropical habitats.
To learn more about this research, visit Dr. Fincke's web page
M.A., Tufts University
B.A., St. Olaf College
Selected publications:
Fincke, OM. 2004. Polymorphic signals of harassed female odonates and the males that learn them
support a novel frequency-dependent model. Animal Behaviour 67:833-845.Fincke, OM & Hadrys, H. 2001. Unpredictable offspring survivorship in the damselfly Megaloprepus coerulatus shapes parental strategies, constrains sexual selection, and challenges traditional fitness estimates. Evolution 55:653-664.
Fincke, OM. 1999. Organisation of predator assemblages in Neotropical tree holes: effects of abiotic factors and priority. Ecological Entomology 24:13-23.
Fincke, OM. 1997. Conflict resolution in the Odonata: implications for understanding female mating patterns and female choice. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 60:201-220.
Fincke, OM. 1994. Population regulation of a tropical damselfly in the larval stage by food limitation, cannibalism, intraguild predation and habitat drying. Oecologia 100:118-127.
- Fincke, OM. 1992. Consequences of larval ecology for territoriality and reproductive success of a Neotropical damselfly. Ecology 73:449-462.
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